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Though it lacked the dramatic aplomb of Tyra smacking her butt cheek while shouting “Kiss my fat ass!!,” Christina Aguilera’s point was made and made well when she told reporters that: “”I’ve been on all spectrums. I’ve been in this [business] for a long time. I came out on the scene when I was 17 years old. You can never be too much of anything. You can never be too perfect, too thin, too curvy, voluptuous, this, that. I’ve been on all sides of the spectrum as far as any female in this business…I’ve been no stranger to being very comfortable in my own skin…”

The singer, whose weight has gone up recently—much to the enjoyment of critics and Kelly Osborne who have had no shortage of scathing comments to make—continued by saying that women are “definitely under a microscope and under massive scrutiny…As long as I’m happy in my own skin, that’s all I need. I’m happy with where I’m at. I have a boyfriend that loves my body. I love my body. My son is healthy and happy. That’s all that matters.”

Coincidentally, one of the only other pop stars to take such a public stand about their weight is joining Aguilera this season as a judge on The Voice. Kelly Clarkson, since winning American Idol, has often been on the receiving end of some of our cultural hate for women who aren’t skinny. Instead of exercising herself into oblivion or joining a national diet chain as celeb spokesperson, she has kept on doing what she does—showing up, singing, sometimes thin, sometimes with more curves. Some people have loved it and others not so much. Her appearance this weekend on SNL prompted Questlove to tweet, “whites on Clarkson: “overweight”; blacks on Clarkson: “….psssh Yo Son!” #snl”  Not too long after, she replied, “@questlove I love you! Thank you ”

So, instead of ending on snark, let’s wrap it up with some new year optimism—unapologetic declarations from former size 2-women and random tweets sent in the middle of the night are just an indication of what’s to come, meaning more acceptance and less hate for the bodies of women, famous, non-famous and especially the ones reflecting back from us in a mirror.

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